U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised Ethiopia’s Tigray cease-fire during his first visit to the country since the war broke out two years ago. He said the U.N. is upscaling aid to meet “dramatic humanitarian needs.” Speaking alongside African Union Commissioner Moussa Faki Mahamat, on Thursday, Guterres called on the international community to support Ethiopia following […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have convened a regional policy dialogue on investment and protection of health and care workers in Africa. The dialogue is intended to help address the looming shortages of a health workforce and the associated challenges of investment. The aim of the dialogue is to bring together members states, […]
U.S. President Joe Biden raised the possibility Thursday of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to Moscow’s war against Ukraine but said he had yet to see any willingness on Putin’s part to halt his 10-month invasion. “I’m prepared to talk to Putin but only in consultation with NATO allies,” Biden […]
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday he had called on the European Union to sanction Russia’s missile production industry. Kuleba tweeted that Russia’s missile production “must be put to a halt.” He said he communicated the message in a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and also thanked the EU for defense […]
The Kingdom of Morocco led by the Moroccan Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Imane Ouadil has participated in a two-day bazaar held at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel Accra. The event organized by the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in partnership with selected foreign missions in Ghana was its first Christmas charity bazaar which commenced on Saturday, November […]
Madam Louise Paris, the Deputy Director of Operations at the Canadian High Commission in Ghana has hinted of a 125 million Canadian dollar grant from the Canadian government to help improve the agriculture sector. She said the Canadian government was already partnering the government of Ghana to modernise the sector in the area of rehabilitation, retooling […]
Namibia’s ruling party has selected Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the party’s vice president, putting her in line to be the country’s first female presidential candidate when the current leader steps down in March 2024. During a prolonged party congress that ended Monday night, members of Namibia’s ruling Swapo party re-elected Netumbo-Nandi Ndaitwah, the country’s deputy prime […]
Russia has donated 260,000 metric tons of fertilizer it produced that was sitting in European ports and warehouses for use by farmers in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday. “This will serve to alleviate humanitarian needs and prevent catastrophic crop loss in Africa, where it is currently planting season,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, […]
Nato has pledged to give more weapons to Ukraine and help fix critical energy infrastructure badly damaged by massive Russian missile and drone strikes. At a summit in Bucharest, the secretary general of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Moscow of “trying to use winter as a weapon of war”. The Russian strikes have left […]
The European Union (EU) has pledged its support for Ghanaian companies to add value to the country’s raw materials and export them to the European market. The EU said it was ready to support local businesses to import machinery and technology at lower cost for production of finished goods under the EU-Ghana Interim Economic Partnership […]
